The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/15/2012

Alfred Kahn's lesson for regulators: "Do you want to be precisely wrong or approximately right?"…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/13/2012

The trucking industry went to extraordinary lengths to fight deregulation in the 1970s.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/13/2012

Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow Matthew Melchiorre explains what both sides of the Atlantic need to do to avoid fiscal catastrophe.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/12/2012

61 new regulations, from organic food residue to amateur rocketry liberalization.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/08/2012

Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner explains why the election turned out the way it did, and what the results mean going forward for…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/08/2012

A midnight rush is on the way, though it will likely be smaller than if Romney had won the election.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/05/2012

60 new regulations, from dishwashers to falconry.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/01/2012

Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia argues that Google's current dominance as an Internet search engine service is a fragile thing. Creative destruction is…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/29/2012

77 new regulations, from animal drugs to phone bills.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/23/2012

Externalities, asymmetric information, and monopolies are useful concepts for understanding how regulators should behave. But the important thing is how they do behave.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/22/2012

71 new regulations, from gas mileage to certifying seafarers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/15/2012

38 new regulations, from amateur rocket operations to the definition of “night.”…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/11/2012

When it comes to government transparency, it is essential to throw at least some sunlight on the problem. Over at the Daily Caller, Wayne Crews…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/11/2012

Policy Analyst David Bier thinks the world could use more Americans. And an easy way make happen is through increasing legal immigration. America's superior economic…

Immigration

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/09/2012

88 new regulations, from background checks for volunteers to silky sharks .

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/02/2012

The federal regulatory process is a complicated thing. As with any complex body of law, there are loopholes that agencies can exploit.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/01/2012

71 new regulations, from prune insurance to Colombian tariffs.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/24/2012

82 new regulations, from Indian casinos to bailouts for fruit tree owners.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/21/2012

Seatbelts for dogs, surveillance cameras for surveillance cameras, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/20/2012

Regulatory agencies have an eternal incentive to expand their missions and grow their budgets. One consequence of this is that their cost-benefit analyses cannot be…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/19/2012

Non-economists tend to be much more skeptical about economic freedom than economists are. This in itself is a powerful case for free markets. But empirical…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/17/2012

76 new regulations, from DEA property seizures to place-of-origin requirements for wine.

Regulatory Reform